Immediately after renaming the program “Bushcare”, the media discovered that it was laden with pork, kickbacks, inefficiencies, loopholes, unfunded mandates, and corporate payback.
Moreover, they became suspicious of the tactics used to pass Bushcare, outraged at how the House was effectively cut out of the process by calling the bill “deemed passed”, furious at the creation of “death panels” to ration care, and rhetorical about the damage the bill would cause to the medical system and the already-weakened economy as a whole.
They even noted multiple ways in which Bushcare violated the Constitution, not least from a over-broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause.
That… was a pretty good week.